Summary
Document issued by the Commonwealth Employment Service to Nicolae Condurateanu in 1950. The document states that he is to commence work on 25 July 1950 at the Walwa Hotel, Walwa NSW as a gardener.
Nicolae Condurateanu was a Romanian who was placed in a POW camp during World War II in Germany. He met his wife Barbara, also a Romanian, when she caught the wrong train and ended up in a German Displaced Persons camp, where Nicolae was Barbara had spent World War II in a Russian POW camp and was meant to have been on a train back to Romania. The couple married in 1948 at the A1 Heetre Camp and immigrated to Australia in 1950, where Nicolae worked in a Tea factory and Barbara at the Four and Twenty Pie factory. They had no family in Australia and had to rely on each other for support eventually purchasing a house and establishing a life in their new country.
Physical Description
Cream coloured foolscap document with printed and typed text.
More Information
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Ms Carla Lolicato, 15 Nov 2001
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Issued By
Commonwealth Employment Service (CES), Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, 1950
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Inscriptions
Text: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA/COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE/ Stamp: COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE BONEGILLA, VIC/ Doc No:LIST NO.5421/18
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Overall Dimensions
20.8 cm (Length), 33.6 cm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
20.9 mm (Width), 33.8 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Displaced Persons, Immigration, Migrant Camps, Migrant Hostels, Migrant Reception Centres, Romanian Communities, Romanian Immigration